Features for Ngengenoef

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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Small
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Other
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS No laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS Initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Moderately complex
Tone WALS No tones
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Right-oriented: One of the last three
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Combined
Rhythm Types WALS No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present

Morphology

Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS Productive full and partial reduplication
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural complete reduplication
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS Only human nouns, optional
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
Definite Articles WALS No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite word same as 'one'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS No inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Four-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related for non-human reference
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS No gender distinctions
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Existential construction
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Differentiated
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS No person marking
Number of Cases WALS 2 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Qualitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS Mixed morphological case
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Identity
Ordinal Numerals WALS First, two, three
Distributive Numerals WALS Marked by following word
Numeral Classifiers WALS Optional
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS Formally similar, with interrogative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS No possessive affixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Absent
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by prefix
Action Nominal Constructions WALS Restricted
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Differentiation

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS Grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists
The Perfect WALS Other perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Mixed type
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second singular and second plural
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality WALS Mixed
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS None

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS VOS
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative before and after Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Internally headed
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Mixed
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Other

Simple Clauses

Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject clitics on variable host
Verbal Person Marking WALS A or P argument
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS Zero only in 3rd nonsingular
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Double-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS Mixed
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS No antipassive
Periphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Purposive but no sequential
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Both
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS A/Fin and A/Cat
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation WALS Negative existential construction
Polar Questions WALS Absence of declarative morphemes
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible
Comparative Constructions WALS Conjoined

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Non-reduction
Relativization on Obliques WALS Non-reduction

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
M-T Pronouns WALS No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns WALS No N-M pronouns

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

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